No, they do different things. You can’t expect BuddyPress to set a bbPress setting, or vice-versa. If you run bbPress 2.0 with the bundled version that comes with BuddyPress, you need a little elbow grease.

I’m not sure if this is the correct way to do it, but what I did was: disable the group forum component in BP settings; delete the forums page that BP installed (because I like to use /forums) but I found you can also use a different slug. If you go to WP Settings > Forums it has a bunch of bbPress settings.

One thing I cannot figure out so far is why I keep on getting the following error message in Appearance: “Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.”

Otherwise it looks fine in the bp-default theme. Anyone know why that happens?

It also seems bbpress needs a bunch of plugins to make it work like nice sites I’ve come across.

I really like the site-wide forums though, was never really a fan of group forums. Thanks for the choice!

@ken_k “bbPress comes with a child theme of TwentyTen, titled (you guessed it) bbPress – TwentyTen. This theme includes all of the custom bits that bbPress needs to function, broken up into template parts to allow them to be used in several places, like template files, shortcodes, and widgets.” -jjj via https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

Josh, thanks for the link. It mentioned: “If you’re using any other conventional WordPress theme (TwentyEleven, BP-Default) and find the default template layout of bbPress acceptable, you don’t need to do anything at all – it should just work.”

So the message in Appearance isn’t an error just informational. I’ll just ignore it then.

I am having the same problem. I have looked at various posts regarding this already. I must be missing something but…I have unticked the enable group forums, as I only want site wide forums – once done, this removes the forum page from the bbpress template pack. I have changed my archive slug / forum base to “support” and my forum slug to “discuss”. I have created a forum and the url is as follows http://www.meetinbradford.org/support/discuss/help-using-this-website/ ?which takes me to the post, but when I try to click the breadcrumb links to get back to the “support” page, I receive this error

“ERROR: You must supply the post ID to get the image from as an argument when calling the graphene_get_post_image() function.”

Thanks mercime, what I have done is exactly the same as the instructions, apart from I’ve changed the slug names. I can actually get to view the post, but if I wanted to create a link to the forum, use a url to the forum, create a menu-heading to get to it – nothing works.